Non-amenability and spontaneous symmetry breaking -- the hyperbolic spin-chain

DOI10.1007/S00023-005-0233-9MaRDI QIDQ2580950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erhard Seiler, Max Niedermaier

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312293

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupnon-amenabilityOsterwalder-Schrader reconstructionspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: The hyperbolic spin chain is used to elucidate the notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking for a non-amenable internal symmetry group, here SO(1,2). The noncompact symmetry is shown to be spontaneously broken -- something which would be forbidden for a compact group by the Mermin-Wagner theorem. Expectation functionals are defined through the L o infty limit of a chain of length L; the functional measure is found to have its weight mostly on configurations boosted by an amount increasing at least powerlike with L. This entails that despite the non-amenability a certain subclass of noninvariant functions is averaged to an SO(1,2) invariant result. Outside this class symmetry breaking is generic. Performing an Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction based on the infinite volume averages one finds that the reconstructed quantum theory is different from the original one. The reconstructed Hilbert space is nonseparable and contains a separable subspace of ground states of the reconstructed transfer operator on which SO(1,2) acts in a continuous, unitary and irreducible way.

Review text

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is typically studied in the case where the symmetry group is amenable. The authors employ the hyperbolic spin chain to study this phenomenon for non-amenable groups, which in the case considered is SO(1,2).

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